Answer to Question #266023 in English for Ri. B

Question

Write a short note on discovery method for teaching consonants.

Answer 1

The Discovery Method differs from the Didactic method in-that, instead of initially telling the children the sound symbol correspondence, the teacher makes them go through a series of steps to discover it for themselves. This method usually takes more teaching time. The teacher presents the students with carefully selected examples of words having a common phoneme pattern which controls the phoneme associated with a consonant or vowel grapheme. It is expected that children will discover the grapheme phoneme correspondence and they will remember and transfer it later.

The first step in teaching consonants is to write a familiar word such as bag. Underline the letter b and tell them that there are many words that begin or end with the letter. Secondly, give a list of words bet, bat, and ball. Ask them to listen to the list you are going to read and put up their hands for the words that make the same sound as the beginning of bag and put their hands down for words that do not have the same beginning sound as bag. You can include words like pet, wet, set in the original list.